Former FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel left a lengthy note as she left town to explain how bad things had gotten at the FEC. Her agency would not help drain the swamp; a bloc of Commissioners had scuttled the agency’s mission to enforce campaign finance disclosure and limits.Source: The FEC and the Draining of Swamps -...
Last month a 2,500-word hit piece by Nancy Cook was published in Politico magazine with signs of Deep State intervention.Source: National Review: ‘Deep FEC’ Goes After White House Counsel Don McGahn (In the News)...
Social media gives us ways to nurture ever more elaborate online communities, but is it friendly to the kind of democracy diverse societies need? In #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media, Cass Sunstein, the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to StarSource: Cass Sunstein on the echo chamber and his new book,...
Donald Rumsfeld once famously said, “There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns.”Source: The Worst $1 Million Trump Ever Saved...
Supporters of greater campaign finance regulation often claim that their issue is of paramount importance to voters. Their evidence is often biased polling.Source: Gallup Poll Shows Less Than 0.5% of Americans Think Campaign Finance “Reform” is Top Problem Facing the Country...
I think people here probably can't wait that long before solving the air pollution problem, so I think the domestic pressure itself is already large enough for China to take action.Source: What exactly was Watergate and is it happening again?...
The New York Times has carried two pieces in the last days on the Internet politics, each making a case for its contribution to degraded democracy. Michael Birnbaum writes about the influence of rightist websites in Europe as both the Netherlands and France head into national elections.Source: Internet Politics-Is the Problem the Politics or the Internet? -...
On the night before the election, Pete Hoekstra stood onstage at a Michigan convention center, introducing the lineup of speakers at Donald Trump’s final rally of the campaign. The former congressman welcomed a professor to the podium for the Pledge of Allegiance, then a GOP county chair.Source: Can Ronna Romney McDaniel unite a fractured Republican Party?...
California State Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Los Angeles) has introduced SCA 11 and SB 691. They would provide that every candidate for local office in California (county, city, special district) would have his or her party of registration printed on ballots.Source: California Bill to Show Party Labels for County, City and Special District Elections...
